The Adventuress

Publishers Weekly Good Night, Mr. Holmes was an impressive enough performance to demand an encore. Introducing Irene Adler, the only woman to dupe Sherlock Holmes, as a detective in her own right, however, the earlier work was a hard act to follow. Happily, spirited opera star and amateur sleuth Irene is up the task in this new yarn, a rollicking and complex story brimming with Victorian atmosphere and details...Irene is in Paris, delightedly reading her obituaries after her presumed death in a railway accident, when she becomes involved in the case of a corpse that washes up on the shore of the Seine...Irene's investigation takes her and others, including Sarah Bernhardt and Holmes himself, the the woman who is to become the first American princess of Monaco. Douglas makes inspired use of...sedate parson's daughter Penelope to chronicle the tale's wild escapades.


Genre: Historical Mystery